Got the front guard I designed/ordered in the mail today. I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, its amazing that its hand made and its freaking awesome that people have these skills and I am grateful for that. On the other hand, it'll be the only part on the bike that will 'look' hand made. Sure, its charming and original, but I am more of a design for production kinda designer rather than an artist kind of designer. Plus its just not quite right. I made a drawing for the part and sent it to the guy and offered to send the 3D printed prototype as well but he said he didn't need it. I wish I had sent it anyway. Then he would have had something to match it up against - like a buck. I printed out the curvature at 1:1 scale and cut it out and put it in the middle of the guard - you can see its a way too tight of a curve. I know how hard these double curvatures are to get - I have done a couple of metal shaping classes myself (I sucked) but I wanted it to be a bit more mellow than this. I'll put it on the tyre tomorrow and see what it looks like before deciding to use it or not. Looks like if I did want to start selling these, I will need to invest in some press tools, rather than going down the hand made path...